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Founded:
1983, using The Son-Rise Program, the first ever relationshiip-based treatment program with a foundation of love and acceptance as the key component of education and treatment.
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From kate Wilde: Hello Everyone!Click on the video below for a little inspiration in keeping your energy levels up this Holiday season.Looking forward to spending another year helping children on the Autism Spectrum and their families.Much love to you allKate and Jack
Sherri
Sherri
Kate, I think I know what you mean when you refer to camp beds...They are a soft nylon and/or canvas like material pulled over a metal frame; usually folding... a camping store may have them. @ Rosemary- check Gander Mountain Stores or Dick's Sporting Goods.
Tue at 11:08am
Kate
Kate
Hi Terryanne - thank you for your sweet note - you are an amazing inspiration true force of nature - I send you much love this new year to you and your whole family!
Yesterday at 12:38am
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From Kate Wilde:Here at The Autism Treatment Center of America we believe that creativity is all about attitude, when we enjoy what we are doing we are creative...
Kurt

Kurt Just signed up yesterday for the start up program. Really excited. Lot's to do before Feb.

December 24 at 5:39am · Report
Colleen Falke Errington
Colleen Falke Errington
Yay for you. You won't regret it.
10 hours ago
Laura Johnson Horne

Laura Johnson Horne I'm setting up the playroom to begin doing Son-Rise therapy w/ our son (yay!), and I wanted to get your advice on what video camera we should put in the room to record the sessions. Should we get a surveillance camera or a regular video camera? Do you have any specific brand/type recommendations? Thank you so much!!!!!!

December 22 at 4:22pm · Report
Tim
Tim
We just have a cam corder that looks in through the glass
December 22 at 7:27pm
Bears Barry Neil Kaufman

Bears Barry Neil Kaufman SON-RISE PROGRAM: A LIVING
PHILOSOPHY: VISION + ACTION: To love, to jump in, to deeply commit , to make a difference (never giving up hope).
After bringing our son out of autism and loving his sisters, we decided
to adopt children battered by trauma. One who starved, one abandoned at
graveside, one whose throat had been sl...it. It was all about gratitude,
taking a position, standing tall. Then to our grandchildren -- a rainbow family. Diverse. Different races and backgrounds. Many challenged. All loved. All children of our hearts. Love, Bears & Samahria, Co-Founders/Son-Rise Program

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December 21 at 8:36pm · Report
Kelli
Kelli
beautiful bears... I hope you don't mind me stealing your tag line and putting it up outside our playroom door. Made tears come to my eyes, so simply put and yet captures it all. Thank you for who you are, the difference you make, and the love that you share!
December 22 at 7:42am
North Watt
North Watt
I am on it, as well great tag line for all playrooms..
December 22 at 6:24pm
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From Alison: Are you crazy busy right now...
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More Ideas to spice up a gluten/casein and sugar free diet:MustardMustard is great because it's the only condiment I have found that doesn't contain sugar and sugar products, wheat or dairy. You can find all kinds of different mustard's at the grocery store...
Laura
Laura
Be careful to avoid spices in mustards, many mobilize mercury (such as coriander). Therefore, unless the biochemistry is sound and detoxification pathways undamaged, you can see some fairly alarming symptoms. Be on the watch for weight loss, pale acidic skin with rings around the eyes, CN changes such as eyes moving in different directions, unusual... See More behaviours (ok, more so than normal) and bowel changes. These are also the markers if chelation is not being tolerated eg when using synthesised vitamins as supplements which the body can begin to see as "foreign" and not absorb properly... do you guys have a biomed blog???
December 21 at 3:03pm
Laura
Laura
duh... just found it, excuse me :)
December 21 at 3:06pm
Emilia Nordström

Emilia Nordström I really like this Center, Im working with a girl with autism,
and I love to watch her make her step to a new stage!

December 20 at 4:04pm · Report
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From Jack: Hullo friends!So I'm writing this from JFK airport, where I have been stranded for 12 hours due to heavy snows, and am due to be here for another 12 hours before a replacement flight back to the UK can be scheduled.....
Rifka
Rifka
How lucky for your fellow passengers to have authentic, loving, happiness-choosing Jack along for the ride! Thanks for helping me see my day through a wide lens!
December 20 at 8:30am
Michelle Kitchener
Michelle Kitchener
wow..I really love your last statement...give yourself the best experience waiting it out..very helpful for me especially this weekend cuz I couldn't go home to spend my mom''s birthday with her as planned.
December 20 at 12:20pm
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From Kate Wilde: Giant Animal blocks, a fun prop idea from our talented Son-Rise Program Child facilitator Kim Korpady.Click on the video below, (or if you are on face book click on the title of this blog, then on , "View Original Blog" then on the video itself), to see how you could use these...
Dawnmarie
Dawnmarie
very cool! Thanks! :) :) Happy holidays you guys!
December 20 at 3:23pm
Zhenlin Despi
Zhenlin Despi
happy holidays...
December 20 at 6:30pm
Greg Frederick

Greg Frederick A big thank you from the Frederick family to the entire staff at SonRise! Our Intensive Program was all we had expected and so much more.

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At The Autisn Treatment Center of America, we work with many children on specific diets. Here are some more ideas to keep cooking interesting for you and your kids.Some food ideas that I use as my "Saving Grace" when following a gluten, casein and sugar free diet.Coconut products...
Sugey
Sugey
I posted the following recipe on our blog, but anyway, it is a GF/CF recipe for pumpkin pie:

Gluten and Casein Free Pumpkin Pie Recipe that is DELICIOUS

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Adapted from: Nourishing Traditions
TOTAL TIME: 55 MIN.* MAKES 8-12 SERVINGS

Ingredients for Crust:
1 box Kinnikinnick GF/CF/Allergen Free Graham Crackers
6 tablespoons Spectrum Organic all Vegetable Shortening (instead of butter)
1 /3 cup of sugar or other sugar alternative

1. Mix all ingredients together
2. Use shortening to grease up pie pan (9 inch pan)
3. Pour Crust mixture in pan and refrigerate for 1 hour.

Ingredients for Pie:

1 Graham Cracker Crust made from scratch (see above)
1 15 oz can of pumpkin puree or 2 cups fresh baked pumpkin
3 eggs
1/3- ½ cup honey or other natural sweetener, to taste
1 tsp dried ginger or 1 Tbsp freshly grated ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp sea salt
¼ tsp powdered cloves
¼ tsp nutmeg
1 cup coconut milk (full fat)

Steps:
1. Line a 9 inch pie pan with your choice of gluten-free crust. Crack the eggs into a large bowl and beat well. Add the rest of the ingredients until thoroughly combined. Pour batter into pie crust.
2. To avoid the crust getting burned, cover edges of pie pan with strips of aluminum foil until they just over the edges of the pie crust.
3. Bake at 325 for 45 minutes or until firm.

Per Serving (doesn’t include crust): 96 Calories; 4g Fat (37.2% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 13g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 64mg Cholesterol; 77mg Sodium.
December 19 at 11:13pm
Srabani Bose

Srabani Bose Is there anybody in the group living in Calgary doing the program?

December 16 at 8:12pm · Report
Kelli
Kelli
Jeannene Christie who is a certified Child Facilitator lives in Calgary (if I'm not mistaken - or at least in Alberta :)).
December 17 at 4:41am
Srabani Bose

Srabani Bose I have joind this group just now.

December 16 at 8:11pm · Report
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Autism Treatment Center of America APPLY FOR PROFESSIONAL STAFF TRAINING AT THE AUTISM TREATMENT CENTER OF AMERICA!

Change your career and your life! We are recruiting passionate individuals who love special children to train to become part of our elite team of Son-Rise Program staff in Sheffield MA, at The Autism Treatment Center of America. We are de......dicated to helping families, care givers, and professionals enable children to dramatically improve in all areas of learning, development, communication and skill acquisition. Email admissions@option.org for more details. Applications are due by February 19th 2010.

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Katrina Kramlich
Katrina Kramlich
As a child facilitator, I can tell you that training is awesome, the staff is amazing, and afterwards you have the best job in the world and every week you work with the cutest kids on the planet. I recommend it to everyone!
December 17 at 2:36pm
Divya Kallianpur
Divya Kallianpur
Can international SLP's join too?? I'm presently working in India and would love tobe a part of the training. Is there funding?
December 18 at 2:50am